XP license problems

[Perryg114]

Lately I am having problems installing legal copies of XP on the machines that it was originally on. Usually there was a 30 day grace period that gave you time to load everything to see if it all work and load LAN drivers etc. Now it does not give you a chance to do anything before it just logs you out. You can't even get to the desktop to load drivers etc. This has happened to a machine at work and one at home. I am thinking MS has inserted a bug into the systems and is trying to end XP for good. Some of us have stuff that won't run at all on Win 7 or higher.

Perry

 

[C1]

Order of operations?

There could be no reason why your OEM or retail installation disks should now work different from how they had, say, even 5 years ago.

Install the OS, update the drivers, install your apps then update.

If there's an issue with OS activation, then call the MS phone number provided on the activation data entry request screen.

 

[Mantrid-Drone]

Have you tried installing XP offline?

 

[Elixer]

For anything that can only be run on XP, I would just install XP on a virtual machine, and use it that way.
As was said above, you could call MS and activate it that was as well.

 

[nemesismk2]

i have a few copies of windows xp pro and i would call microsoft to activate your copy of windows xp pro..

 

[nemesismk2]

i guess you could do the windws xp registry hack which will give you updates until 2019

 

[Perryg114]

Just started up an XP machine that has been sitting a while and not connected to the internet. It started up with the activation popup and would not even let me in to connect to the internet. This was a machine that was working fine a couple years ago. I wonder if there was some sort of timeout that MS put into the system. This is happening too often to be a coincidence.

I have had this happen on machines I have cloned the hard drive on to upgrade or replace the hard drive as well.

Perry

 

[Perryg114]

Just started up an XP machine that has been sitting a while and not connected to the internet. It started up with the activation popup and would not even let me in to connect to the internet. This was a machine that was working fine a couple years ago. I wonder if there was some sort of timeout that MS put into the system. This is happening too often to be a coincidence.

i guess you could do the windws xp registry hack which will give you updates until 2019

You have details on how to do this?

Perry

 

[bruceb]

Here for extended updates on XP:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/registry-hack-enables-continued-updates-for-windows-xp/
http://www.zdnet.com/article/registry-hack-enables-continued-updates-for-windows-xp/
Also you may want to remove Windows Genuine Check that was likely installed:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/wga_remover.html

 

[nemesismk2]

yes the first link above contains info on windws xp registry hack which will give you updates until 2019

 

[nemesismk2]

i had a full legal bought copy of windows xp pro sp3 which i bought from microsoft some years ago and i still use windows xp sometimes to play old games which windows 7 and windows 10 pro doesn't play them well.

 

[twinrider1]

I just reinstalled XP home on my computer and called their toll-free number to register. I punched in the key and it gave me the long authorization code.